5.09, CHOOSE & PARM

[Roger Marcinik]

One of our clients is still using 5.09 on an HP3000.  They have a number of
QUIZ reports using CHOOSE with a prompt for a date.  Until recently the
Image (key) date field was defined as Z6.  The Image database was
restructured using Adager and all dates were changed to Z8.  The QDDR
dictionary was changed to match and with century now included as date
default with format MMDDYYYY.  After these changes, the QUIZ reports were
modified to prompt for MMDDYYYY and recompiled.  All QUIZ using  CHOOSE
NEWDATE PARM PROMPT failed to retireve any records.  In an interactive
test, CHOOSE NEWDATE 19980125 produced the expected results, but when the
PARM option was used with or without the FORMAT option, the CHOOSE failed
again.  Since the client also has version 6.09 available, but not in use
yet, we tested the interactive and compiled QUIZ versions and CHOOSE with
the PARM PROMPT worked fine with version 6.09.

CHOOSE NEWDATE PARM  PROMPT still works fine in QTP 5.09 and FINDs in
QDESIGN/QUICK 5.09 also work fine.  Only QUIZ 5.09 fails.

As a workaround, client plans to recompile all  QUIZ using version 6.09,
but keep the dictionary, QTP and QUICK on version 5.09 for the time being
until users can perform extensive testing using version 6.09.
Should we expect any problems with this configuration?

Anyone else notice similar problems?  Anything else we should look out for
with 8 character dates?